History

Sailing by Starlight

In Search of Treasure Island
by Alex Capus

Sailing by Starlight is part biography, part travel journal and part tribute to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. Capus takes the reader on an adventure on the South Seas in search of the very treasure made famous by Stevenson.

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Beneš, Masaryk: Czechoslovakia

Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath
by Peter Neville

To be published on 28th July 2010 - the 90th anniversary of the favourable Teschen award to the Czechs by the Allied Powers. Tomáš Masaryk was hard at work within a month of the outbreak of war lobbying in Paris and London for an independent Bohemia, still a major component of the Austrian Empire within the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, which would incorporate the predominantly Slovak regions of northern Hungary.

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William Massey: New Zealand

Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath
by James Watson

The Great War profoundly affected both New Zealand and its Prime Minister William Massey (1856-1925). ‘Farmer Bill’ oversaw the despatch of a hundred thousand New Zealanders, including his own sons, to Middle Eastern and European battlefields.

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Admiral Togo

The Nelson of the East
by Jonathan Clements

This new biography spans Japan's sudden, violent leap out of its self-imposed isolation and into the 20th century. Delving beyond Togo's finest hour at the Battle of Tsushima, it portrays the life of a diffident Japanese sailor in Victorian Britain, his reluctant celebrity in America (where he was laid low by Boston cooking and welcomed by his biggest fan, Theodore Roosevelt), forgotten wars over the short-lived Republics of Ezo and Formosa, and the accumulation of peacetime experience that forged a wartime hero.

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Sir Robert Borden: Canada

Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath
by Martin Thornton

This book is to be published on the 90th anniversary of Sir Robert Borden's resignation, having played a crucial role in transforming the British Empire into a partnership of equal states.

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Price: £10.40